Dann Gire
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'Awakening' hardly enough to keep audiences awakeAug 30, 2012 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: 'The Awakening' I have a Sixth Sense that The Others in The Orphanage might find Nick Murphy's Brit ghost movie “The Awakening” to be every b...
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Exorcism thriller 'Possession' too tame, familiarAug 30, 2012 6:00 am - The first thing killed in Ole Bornedal's exorcism horror tale "The Possession" is any sense of mystery or suspense. In the opening scene, an older woman, clearly upset, ...
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'Lawless' is flawed - but worth seeingAug 28, 2012 11:00 pm - In John Hillcoat's indelicately violent Prohibition tale "Lawless," a moonshiner senses trouble, so he takes a shotgun off the wall and loads it with shells. In another ...
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Island Lake municipal complex plan under fireAug 25, 2012 10:07 pm - Island Lake public officials were in for a hot time — and so was everyone else — Saturday morning as more than 100 residents stuffed into the village hall gym to see pla...
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Stellar cast in charming 'Robot and Frank'Aug 23, 2012 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: "Robot and Frank" At first, the robot in Jake Schreier's senior citizen science fiction drama "Robot and Frank" resembles a 10-year-old actor stuf...
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Nonstop bike messenger action thriller delivers the goodsAug 23, 2012 5:00 am - "Brakes are death!" Wilee the New York bike messenger shouts. David Koepp's stunt-stuffed, time-tricked chase thriller "Premium Rush" apparently believes this, because i...
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Dax taking ‘Hit’ and running with itAug 22, 2012 4:00 pm - Dax Shepard, star of the underrated NBC TV series “Parenthood,” is also the star, writer and co-director of the new action comedy “Hit & Run.” He came to Chicago’s Park ...
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Action/comedy 'Hit & Run' races alongAug 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Dax Shepard's redneck NASCAR romance/action comedy "Hit & Run" aspires to overhaul and restart a largely dormant movie genre once gleefully exploited by the winning acto...
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Wheaton filmmakers put suburbs on the big screenAug 20, 2012 11:00 pm - If everything goes as planned, filmmakers Kevin and DeAnna Cooper hope to do for the Northwest suburbs what John Hughes did for the North Shore. The husband-and-wife tea...
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Bartlett native, Elgin High grad plays big role in ESPN filmAug 16, 2012 9:00 am - If the name Ryan Suffern sounds familiar, you might have gone to school with him in Bartlett. Or read our November "From Suburbs to Showbiz" profile, charting how the El...